The keynote speaker told the fourth biennial conference of the Catskill Environmental Research and Monitoring last Thursday morning that he regards the creation of the state Catskills forest preserve in 1888 as the beginning of “what must be one of the longest experiments in natural recovery and restoration ecology” in the world.
The question of whether to halt development near the Thruway for nine months so that the zoning code can be rewritten has been controversial.
It becomes quickly obvious how many people Rovereto knows as she sits quietly at a corner table at the Stockade Diner in Uptown Kingston this past Saturday morning. It’s also obvious how quickly word gets around in a community like Ulster County. “Congratulations, Margie,” one smiling woman says. “Welcome home,” adds another.
The company’s founder, Calandra C. Cruickshank, grew up in the Town of Shandaken, still lives deep in the Catskills, and runs her business out of Kingston.
Developer David Shepler, planning board member Lagusta Yearwood, and two opponents of Zero Place, MaryJo Johnson and Michael J Schwartz, present reasoned arguments for their points of view.
Rupco & Mary Stuart Masterson’s Stockade Works would like to transform the cavernous former MetLife building on Greenkill Avenue in Kingston into a TV/film production studio and training center.
Our collective efforts have paid off, with Ulster County paving shoulders from the Carmine Liberta Bridge up to Butterville Road — and they did this in just two days. Incredible! But the work is not done and neither are our efforts.
A civil epistolary discussion of the four-story mixed-use proposed development for Rt. 32N in the village of New Paltz.
The increase at a time when alternate financial institutions are competing more aggressively with banks must be regarded as a good economic sign.
More than 26 years ago, Donald Trump organized a bike race he said could be “tremendous in the future, and it can really, very much rival the Tour de France.” Since the first leg ended in New Paltz, there was quite a bit of local fanfare.